Could you please clarify "Wipe out America"? When I hear that, I think we will be seeing lava flying through the air from California to New York,
Michigan to Florida. Is it the Ash that will cover the US? Or will we all truly see lava?

If you read carefully you can see I put it in quotes. It came from the article from news.com.au but for some reason I couldn't link to it. It
linked on microsoft word but not on ATS for some strange reason.

Because of this, I guess you assumed I wrote that remark.

In answer to your question, my guess is the writer meant the blast would be so big as to cause enough destruction and mayhem to cause chain reactions
which would eventually seriously damage the U.S.

Could you please clarify "Wipe out America"? When I hear that, I think we will be seeing lava flying through the air from California to New York,
Michigan to Florida. Is it the Ash that will cover the US? Or will we all truly see lava?

It means the ash that would drop on the bread basket would kill Americas agriculture. The North West would be toast from earth quakes and
lava.....which is were I live...Idaho....the east coast would be ok but "America" as we know it would be no more

Ohhh not just that The Old Lady might blow and cause global catastrophe, not just the US... but here are several other nearby "smaller"
supervolcanos. A paper I read several years back speculated about a chain reaction between the different sister supervolcanos and chambers if
Yellowstone went full on eruption. She has several pressure release valves, but who knows whats really up with her expansion and the newer die offs in
the area... sneaky toxic gas. Im not even mentioning the HUUUUGE volcano that is not only new, but in the pacific.. and though not set to blow
immediately, its a world changer and new continent maker!

I like my doom porn less realistic.. zombies, reptilian aliens with us on the menu.. Yellowstone is way way too immediately possible for my taste.

The notion that a Yellowstone super-eruption would be an extinction-level event is silly. Super-eruptions happen every 50k-100k years somewhere in the
world. That makes them a regular part of the geologic history of the earth.

How many species have scientists identified that went extinct because of a supervlocano eruption? None that I am aware of (this excludes the
super-massive flood basalt eruptions such as the Siberian Traps and Deccan Traps, which were far larger than yellowstone.)

How many ice ages/glaciations have been identified as having been caused by a supervolcano eruption? None that I'm aware of.

In fact, many scientists now think that the climate effects of supervolcano eruptions are greately limited by the fact that so many sulfates are
ejected into the atmosphere that they clump together, form larger particles, and fall to the earth:

What volcano in the Pacific that could make a continent? What would something like that do to our continent? My understanding was that our continent
is already on one tectonic plate. How would another continent fit on the same tectonic plate? Are we talking something the size of Greenland or
something the size of Asia?

This sounds much more 'doable' for our country if that is actually what really happens and not all the doom and gloom the current scientists want to
say about Yellowstone. It wouldn't be the best though if it was possible for Yellowstone to blow at massive proportions and they didn't warn
someone. I wonder if they are waiting to be 'pleasantly surprised' with a manageable eruption and not something that wipes out our continent.

I really like this idea. Like a pressure cooker - there is a steam valve that goes off if the pressure builds too high so that the pot doesn't
explode. Why not drill into the chamber somewhere so as not to disturb it too much, but so that pressure is released in a contained manner without
causing a huge explosion? And if people do this instead of mother nature, we can preserve lives and possibly property?

I really like this idea. Like a pressure cooker - there is a steam valve that goes off if the pressure builds too high so that the pot doesn't
explode. Why not drill into the chamber somewhere so as not to disturb it too much, but so that pressure is released in a contained manner without
causing a huge explosion? And if people do this instead of mother nature, we can preserve lives and possibly property?

It's a great "idea" but in reality, no one knows if it would work out with zero problems. What if the drillers trigger it instead? I think there
are too many unknowns to begin probing at it... Heck, we just learned this week that its 2.5 times the size we once thought. This here proves we
really don't know or understand what's going on beneath us. Also, who would we trust to do this? We would essentially be putting the whole world
into some teams hands.....

So, I understand there's a huge volume of magma under Yellowstone Park but has there been any documents as WHY it's there? The continent seems to
creep over the magma chamber (tectonic plate movement). Could it be that this is a "hole" from a huge asteroid hit eons ago? I could picture an
asteroid punching through the crust and the crust that never fully healed. Any thought's on this? Is this even possible?

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